God’s Inheritance
God created man in His own image in order to serve Him.
Joshua’s farewell message
God’s creation.
The angels existed when the heavens and the earth were created. Job 38:1,4-7 …When the morning stars sang together…vs. 7.
The Bible names three archangels: Gabriel (Luke 1:19), Michael (Revelation 12:7) and Lucifer who rebelled against God (Ezekiel 28:13-18) and became Satan.
After creating the heavens and the earth, God created man in His image (Genesis 1:26-28). God breathed into man the breath of life (imparting part of His being into man) making man a unique creation (Genesis 2:7).
Satan in the garden of Eden deceives Eve and introduces sin into the world.
References to God’s inheritance in the Old Testament.
The Lord has taken you out of Egypt… to be unto him a people of inheritance…Deuteronomy 4:20,23.
Israel is the lot of His inheritance. God led him in the wilderness…he kept him as the apple of his eye…Deuteronomy 32:9-12.
Solomon’s prayer for his people: And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee…for they be thy people and thine inheritance. I Kings 8:49-53.
The Lord is the portion of my inheritance…Thou wilt show me the path of life…Psalm16:5&11.
God chose David his servant…to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. Psalm 78:70-71.
Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest…for the Lord will not cast off his people , neither will he forsake his inheritance. Psalm 94:12-14.
They shall be mine saith the Lord…I will spare them as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. Malachi 3:16-18.
References to God’s inheritance in the New Testament.
In Him we have obtained an inheritance…Ephesians 1:11-14.
That ye may know…what the riches of the glory of his inhertance in the saints. Ephesians 1:18.
The prodigal son asks his father for his inheritance. He squanders it, repents, returns to his father and is forgiven and restored. Luke 15:11-13&17-24.
I pray for them Thou hast given me, for they are thine; and all mine are thine…John 17:5-10.
The Holy Ghost is in you, which ye have of God and ye are not your own, for ye are bought with a price…I Corinthians 6:19-20.
For we are laborers together with God…ye are the temple of God, and the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. I Corinthians 3:9 & 16.
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word that ye may grow thereby…ye are a chosen generation…a peculiar people…called out of darkness into his marvelous light. I Peter 2:2 & 9.
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